This is an analysis of The Legends Of Evil by Rudyard Kipling.
This is the sorrowful story
Told when the twilight fails…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abCb deXe ddbd bfbf XXbb bgdg Xhbh bfdX abCb X afcf Xgfg XXbX XbXb XXXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 00010010 110111 10101010 101101 101010010 101001 1110010 0101001 101010010 1101001 11010010 1101001 101010010 100111 1011110 1100111 100010010 0111011 1001110 11111001 10111110 101111 1010010 100101 10001010 100101 1001110 101101 11110110 100101 11110010 11101110 00010010 110111 10101010 101101 1 110111010111110 110101010101001 110101010111110 11100101010001 110111011011000 11111100010101 10010111110101111 1011111001010101 1011111011110010 101000101010101 1010100101111010 110110011111010100 11101000101011010 01001100110011 1111001011101010 01010101100011 01010101101100 10111010101011000 1010111010010111 11101010111010000
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 15
- Lines: 58
Repeated words/phrases
to, our, fathers, in, and, an', thin, him, you, av
Anaphora
our, divil, an', the
Anadiplosis
they
